The Fund of struggle against corruption was a foreign agent

The Fund of struggle against corruption (FBK) Alexei Navalny is included in the list of foreign agents. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of justice.

According to the Ministry, in the course of monitoring the activities of the FBC identified the characteristics that helped to make such a decision. On what grounds FBC has included in the registry, not specified.

On 13 September it became known that 31 Russian city raided employees of FBK. According to the head of the human rights group “Agora” Pavel chikova, searches were conducted on the basis of the 94 rulings of the Basmanny court of Moscow. Presumably, they are related to the case on laundering BCF billion. A criminal case on the legalization of billion roubles were initiated against the leaders of the FBC in early August. In the UK announced the arrest of more than a hundred accounts of the FCO.

The law on foreign agents came into force in 2012, the list includes organizations that were suspected of receiving foreign funding.